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    Wood floor acclimatisation

    Morning All, We've just had some engineered oak floor delivered (180cm x 18cm x 14mm - with approx 2.5mm oak layer). I opened one of the boxes and all of them are bowed 10-15mm in the same direction (oak pointing up). So, it's a bit hot and humid and wood is living so that's fine (I...
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    Doorways and bricks

    Typical, left hand not knowing what right hand is doing. Door makers need to get out more and see what's on the streets. People aren't getting any smaller and instead of cutting 50mm off the width they should be adding it. But then that would make 940mm doors and my bricks would still not...
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    Doorways and bricks

    Probably just me who is as thick as a brick When I look at UPVC back doors a popular size seems to be 840mm wide. But when I look at bricks they are 215 wide and so with a 10mm mortar joint I cannot get 840 to be a round number of bricks in the gap. 890mm gives me a nice round number of...
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